The Day Sailer (also called the O'Day Day Sailer ) is a day sailer for pleasure sailing as well as racing ; it is sailed throughout North America and Brazil . Designed by Uffa Fox and George O'Day in 1958, the Day Sailer possesses a 6-foot beam, an overall length of 17 feet, a fiberglass hull and a cuddy cabin. It is able to sleep two (more if a tent is added to the boom). The sloop rig includes mainsail, jib and a spinnaker on an aluminum mast and boom.
3-727: Over 10,000 boats have been built, and races are held throughout the year in the US and Brazil by the Day Sailer Association and its fleets. The Day Sailer was inducted in 2003 into the American Sailboat Hall of Fame . From 1958 until 1972, the boat was built and sold by O'Day Corp. Later various other builders produced the Day Sailer, including Spindrift, Precision Boat Works , McLaughlin Boat Works, and Sunfish/Laser Inc. Since 1995,
6-643: A trade association for the U.S. sailing industry, to recognize ingenuity in designs by American boat builders. The last year of induction was 2004. Half-hull models of each Hall of Fame inductee was housed in a permanent exhibit at The Museum of Yachting located in Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island prior to the museum's dismantling after a 2007 acquisition by the IYRS School of Technology & Trades . The collection also traveled around
9-571: The boat has been built by Cape Cod Shipbuilding . As of 2010, the Junior North American Championships are to be held every year in order to promote the class and reach out to local youth sailors. American Sailboat Hall of Fame The American Sailboat Hall of Fame is a defunct hall of fame honoring 26 production sailboats built-in the United States . The hall of fame was established in 1994 by Sail America,
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